The Power of Data: What California Needs and Why

Speakers:

• Presenter: Jay Pfeiffer, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Accountability, Research & Measurement, Florida Department of Education, describes Florida's education data system, how it meets the standards of the national Data Quality Campaign, and what it took for Florida to put its data system into place.
• Interviewer/moderator: Joel Montero, CEO, California Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT), moderates the presentations and questions from the audience.
• Discussant: Gavin Payne, Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education, describes a newly announced project by the California Department of Education and McKinsey and Company to develop a white paper for the governor with recommendations for making California's student data system one of the nation's best.

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In addition to this discussion, the Forum included the following sessions:

• Session #1: Interventions
• Session #3: 2008-09 Budget
• Session #4: Finance Reform

 

Presentation Slides:

• Click here to see Jay Pfeiffer's presentation slides. 

Resources Related to Data:

The power of data

• California's State and Local Education Data Systems
  This 5-page research summary distills the findings from two data-systems studies from the Getting Down to Facts research project.
• Children's Education: The Clear Case for Data Systems Redesign
  This Children Now's policy brief discusses the problems with California's data collections efforts and calls for a new system.

Click here to find substantive background resources related to all the topics discussed at the 2008 Forum.

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